Professional Development Programs
Professional Development
The STM Continuing Education department offers a variety of professional development opportunites that engage a topic in a more robust way than one-off lectures.听 These programs typically meet online (via Zoom) for ~2 hour sessions, once/per month over 4 months.
The Best Is Yet to Be: A Spirituality for the Growing Older Years
A program for those who are maturing persons, and those听who are ministering with/for people听who are growing older
If we don鈥檛 listen to the world鈥檚 stereotypes, myths and jokes about growing older, our lives are filled with possibilities, growth, depth and joy, particularly in the things that matter.听听This course will听reflect on some of the blessings that come at this time of life 鈥� and ask, 鈥淲hat is God鈥檚 Dream for me Now?鈥�
Find Grace and Hope in Long-Term Grief
A program for those experiencing grief and for ministry professional development听
Grief follows no set schedule nor does it end after a brief period of mourning. While time might mellow the sadness and trauma of a devastating loss, it does not eliminate the grief that accompanies it. This five-week course offers insights into the process of grief over a long period of time and how grace can emerge from it.
Grief, Loss, and the Creative Arts
A program for professional development and ministerial practice
The creative arts can offer grievers a safe outlet for managing their grief that is both readily accessible and easily saved. This program offer insights on hosting a bereavement program that uses the arts to explore grief and loss.
The Journey Continues
Ongoing Supervision and Education for Practicing Spiritual Directors
This course offers the opportunity to explore some of the questions and challenges of the spiritual life, and to further refine the skills to help others mine the riches of God's grace.听
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Past Programs
Resilience, Grief, and the Christian Walk
A program for professional development and ministerial practice
How might people of faith cultivate and strengthen resources to respond to and cope with grief?听 In this series, we will take up this question by focusing on the three interrelated dimensions of grief, resilience, and a Christian worldview.
Calling Out from the Depths: Jewish & Christian Interpretations of the Book of Psalms
An Interdisciplinary Exploration for Religious Professionals
A course for Jewish and Christian professionals in which we will explore the many uses of the Psalms in our various communities, past and present.
Remembering the Holocaust: Voices of Survivors
Offered in partnership with Yad Vashem -听The International Institute for Holocaust Research
A 3- day scholarly seminar on remembering the experiences of women and children during the Holocaust, with small group discussion.
Holy Mothers of God with Br. Mickey McGrath
Art and Reflections on the Maternal Heart of God with Brother Mickey McGrath - Saints who were Mothers, and Mothers of Saints and some Grandmothers too!
Our Church and our world are in desperate need of the Grace-Filled Spirit and Feminine Wisdom of these extraordinary women. Among the heroic saints whose lives we will explore are Mary, Elizabeth, Dorothy Day, Jane de Chantal, Zelie Martin, Elizabeth Anne Seton, and Monica and Martha Jane, the mothers of two boys named Augustine.